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Kate McKeown
Kate McKeown is a writer, entrepreneur, inventor, and teacher.

Life and Education
Kate graduated from The University of Notre Dame with honors and Collegiate Scholar Designation, studied for a year in France, worked during college as a mail carrier for the US Postal service and as an intern on Capitol Hill, sold heavy industrial equipment for Wheelabrator-Frye, and used to be fairly fluent in French. She lives in Greenwich Village.

Writer
Kate is the co-author, with Lou Mobley, of the business book, Beyond IBM: Leadership, Marketing and Finance for the 90s and Beyond. Beyond IBM, called a “best-selling business book” by the Wall Street Journal, was published in the US by McGraw-Hill and in seven other countries. Kate’s non-fiction has been published in many business journals, including The Harvard Business Review, PC Computing Magazine, Success Magazine, and D&B Reporst. Kate worked extensively with W. Edwards Deming, helping him to edit his book, Out of the Crisis, published by MIT Press.

Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, Kate founded World One Communications, Inc., a long distance reseller, and C.W.O., Inc. (Cold War’s Over), a company that imported Russian military clothing for sale in the US, covered by Business Week in “Developments to Watch.”  She was Chapter President of the Washington, DC chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization. As an inventor, Kate holds one patent and generally has several provisional patents pending. She has sold one of her inventions on the QVC home shopping channel.

Teacher
As a teacher, Kate teaches Entrepreneurship at the Fordham Graduate School of Business. She taught for nine years in the Birthing of Giants program at MIT, co-sponsored by Inc. Magazine. Kate has also taught introductions to financial statements to numerous groups of American businesspeople and entrepreneurs, in forums such as the American Management Association and Comdex, and has guest lectured to groups of Russian and Chinese businesspeople.

References www.linkedin.com/in/kamckeown/ www.giinius.com https://books.google.com/books/about/Beyond_IBM.html?id=oWAxAAAACAAJ